Does anyone have a good bio of what kind of life a domestic servant lead at the end of the 19th century? Thanks Ken Kenton Poole Poole's Creative Concepts 34 Dungan Street Canandaigua, NY 14424 585 486 1248 fax 585 905 0160 p Kpoole01@rochester.rr.com

Hi Ken A pretty hard one I suspect. I understand that quite a lot of girls only went into service as a last resort. Pauline ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Poole" <kpoole01@rochester.rr.com> To: <eng-warks-birmingham@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 9:23 PM Subject: [B'ham] Domestic Servants Does anyone have a good bio of what kind of life a domestic servant lead at the end of the 19th century? Thanks Ken Kenton Poole Poole's Creative Concepts 34 Dungan Street Canandaigua, NY 14424 585 486 1248 fax 585 905 0160 p Kpoole01@rochester.rr.com

I think it was the only option for a lot of girls. There used to be a really good site Called Victorian Lace which had descriptions of the lives of domestic servants but it closed last year. If anyone knows how to find archives of sites that have closed, perhaps they could find it http://www.geocities.com/victorianlace26/DomesticServants.html Anne On 10 Nov 2006, at 08:01, Pauline Roberts wrote: > Hi Ken > > A pretty hard one I suspect. I understand that quite a lot of girls > only > went into service as a last resort. > > Pauline > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ken Poole" <kpoole01@rochester.rr.com> > To: <eng-warks-birmingham@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 9:23 PM > Subject: [B'ham] Domestic Servants > > > Does anyone have a good bio of what kind of life a domestic servant > lead at > the end of the 19th century? > Thanks > Ken > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _____________________________________________ > Tracing Ancestors in Birmingham: > http://www.bham.de/ > > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: > ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

There is also a description of a complete household, with approximate wages at http://www.waynesthisandthat.com/servantwages.htm Anne On 9 Nov 2006, at 21:23, Ken Poole wrote: > Does anyone have a good bio of what kind of life a domestic servant > lead at the end of the 19th century? > Thanks > Ken > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Ken, try http://www.hrmguide.co.uk/history/victorian-domestic-servant.htm Anne On 9 Nov 2006, at 21:23, Ken Poole wrote: > Does anyone have a good bio of what kind of life a domestic servant > lead at the end of the 19th century? > Thanks > Ken > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _____________________________________________ > Tracing Ancestors in Birmingham: > http://www.bham.de/ > > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: > ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Ken, Try: The Victorian Domestic Servant, by Trevor May [Shire Publns., 2003] ISBN 0-7478-0368-4. Pamela Horn: The rise and fall of the Victorian Servant (Sutton Publishing ltd., Phoenix Mill, Thrupp, Stroud, Glos GL5 2BU), GBP 8.95 ISBN 0-7509-37173. Articles in the Cornhill Magazine 1874 ["On the side of the maids", and "On the side of the mistresses"], and an article on the Victorian household by John Burnett, both of which are on victorianweb.org Keith Houghton North Richmond, Sydney, Oz. -----Original Message----- From: Ken Poole [mailto:kpoole01@rochester.rr.com] Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 8:23 AM To: eng-warks-birmingham@rootsweb.com Subject: [B'ham] Domestic Servants Does anyone have a good bio of what kind of life a domestic servant lead at the end of the 19th century? Thanks Ken Kenton Poole Poole's Creative Concepts 34 Dungan Street Canandaigua, NY 14424 585 486 1248 fax 585 905 0160 p Kpoole01@rochester.rr.com